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41 " She’s not the hostess in this house, and she never could be. Do you understand? "
― J. Kenner , Claim Me (Stark Trilogy, #2)
42 " There is an excitement to being bound. To being helpless. A sensual thrill that comes from trusting fully and abandoning modesty at the command of your lover. "
43 " smooth silk teases my yearning sex, the friction from the cord’s braiding making my legs so weak that I’m not sure I’ll make it to wherever he’s leading. His tug is gentle, but enticing, and by the "
44 " want the reality. The moments, like the Bradbury story, when Damien lets me in enough to see a bit of his past and a piece of his heart. "
45 " I swallow, then look down, not wanting to meet the eyes of this man who already sees so much inside me. “I’m afraid that you’re a replacement for the pain. "
46 " If I do all those things for you—soothe you, center you, give you strength—then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned "
47 " Tempting, But I don't think that I could stand the guilt knowing that I traded an orgasm for fiscal ruin.""Trust me, baby. It would be more than one orgasm. "
48 " What do you want? " I ask once I've broken the kiss. "Right now, if you could have me any way you wanted, what would you have me do?""Right now, I want you beside me," he says, "I want to hold you. "
49 " Slowly, I lay my palm over his heart, then close my eyes as I feel it beat, strong and steady like the man himself. "
50 " I do. When I touch you. When I see your skin tremble with desire. When your muscles tighten and draw me in. What is it you think that you’re doing to me other than making "
51 " That’s an illusion. It’s you, Nikki. You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It’s more fragile than you might think. "
52 " Fine that though I now turn to him for comfort, he leaves our bed in the middle of the night to find solace in solitude. "
53 " How wonderful to have received a letter from a lover. To open it and see his heart on the page, his handwriting bold and strong. There’s an immediacy to texts and emails that can’t be denied, but the intimacy of a letter really can’t be replicated. "
54 " This job requires a certain amount of finesse. An ability to communicate with clients and the public. And most of all a talent for smiling at people that you’d much rather spit on.” I flash my brightest Social Nikki smile at him. “Tanner,” I say. “I don’t think this position is for you. "
55 " It is only when I see his face that I stop. He is looking at me with such open adoration that it makes my heart skip a beat. He stops swimming and stands in the chest-deep water. "I didn't mean to wake you. "
56 " There is nothing about you that I could ever forget, You are burned in my memory. Your hair glittering in candlelight. Your skin, dewy and soft, as you step out of the shower. The way you move beneath me when we make love. And the way you look at me, as if there is nothing you could see inside me that would make you turn away. "
57 " He stays silent, and a cold dread curls through me. I am about to beg again when he speaks, so low and so gentle that I have to strain to hear him, and even then I am not sure that I have actually caught his words. “I’m sorry. "
58 " I watch his face silently, waiting for him to explain. “I don’t want to be the asshole who keeps you away from your friends,” he says. “And I don’t want you to feel like you have to keep things from me in order to see them. And I’m sorry because you obviously felt exactly that way. "